NWCLARK TPF grant report #49

[Hours]		[Activity]
2012/08/06	Monday
 0.25		investigating security tickets
 1.00		reading/responding to list mail
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 1.25

2012/08/07	Tuesday
 3.75		-e 'BEGIN {1}'
 2.75		reading/responding to list mail
=====
 6.50

2012/08/08	Wednesday
 0.25		-e 'BEGIN {1}'
 0.50		process, scalability, mentoring
 0.50		readonly ops
 8.50		warnings from multi-line constructions
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 9.75

2012/08/09	Thursday
 0.50		process, scalability, mentoring
 4.00		warnings from multi-line constructions
=====
 4.50

2012/08/10	Friday
 0.75		process, scalability, mentoring
 3.00		warnings from multi-line constructions
=====
 3.75

2012/08/12	Sunday
 2.25		warnings from multi-line constructions
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 2.25

Which I calculate is 28.00 hours

Most of the week was taken up with investigating three related areas:

*) How code such as -e 'BEGIN {1}' is compiled, and the interaction between
   PL_main_cv, CvSTART(PL_main_cv), PL_main_root and PL_main_start
*) Code in op.c which calls CopLINE_set(PL_curcop, oldline) and warnings from
   multi-line constructions
*) Building with -DPERL_DEBUG_READONLY_OPS to force shared ops to be
   read-only, and determining the causes of code trying to write to read-only
   ops

all of which aren't quite finished yet (even 1.5 days into "next" week), so
will have to wait until the next report for a (hopefully more) coherent
narrative.

The next report likely will be late as I'm at YAPC::Europe for most of next
week.

Nicholas Clark

• NWCLARK TPF grant report #49 by Nicholas Clark